Topic Tags: shema

Amy Ariel offers a teaching about belonging and a collaboratively-created prayer.

“An alternative, non-patriarchal language shema.”

What begins as a tangle of threads in my hands becomes the connection to creation, forming visions behind my eyes, images within my heart, sounds inviting the sacred.

A collection of LGBTQ+ blessings, poems, prayers, rituals, and kavanot.

“Find the threads of connection and tie them to the edges of your self – call them tzitzit.” 

“I bow to the mystery of One, to the mystery of the call…”

Hear, O Israel / the prayer was dance / Adonai Eloheinu / there were no pews

“Listen to the still small voice whispering your name…”

“Breathe. I command myself to focus on the words Shema Yisrael…”

“If you were not, / I never would have seen the face of creation.”